News Monthly Archives: June 2015

Green Certification and Ecolabeling To differentiate your product or service as environmentally sound, you may want to obtain certification from an independent, third-party so that you can include their logo or “ecolabel” on your product’s label and other marketing materials. … Continued

GAO: Agency Need Not Raise Offeror’s High Price In Discussions When an agency decides to hold discussions with offerors, must it discuss with an offeror the price proposed for the contract? Not unless that offeror’s proposed price is so high … Continued

Make your teaming strategy central to your capture process The questions thrown about the conference rooms and offices of government contractors around the Beltway and across the country are the same: What’s our proposal strategy? Our pricing strategy? What’s our … Continued

Oklahoma Bid Assistance Network’s Findeiss Recognized by SBA’s Oklahoma District APTAC congratulates Oklahoma Bid Assistance Network (OBAN) PTAC’s Larry Findeiss, who was named 2015 Veteran Small Business Champion by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Oklahoma District. Findeiss is active … Continued

Federal Contractors To Be Burdened With Additional Disclosure Requirements If Government Has Its Say The U.S. Labor Department (DOL) and three federal agencies (the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration and NASA) recently issued two proposed documents relating to … Continued

SBA Mississippi statewide application & destination HUBZone conferences In national and statewide efforts, the Mississippi SBA is currently seeking firms that may be eligible for its 8(a) and HUBZone Programs for two primary purposes: To increase applications and to expand … Continued

University of Houston PTAC Advisor Sutton Recognized by SBA’s Houston District The Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (APTAC) congratulations Deidra Sutton for being named 2015 Minority Small Business Champion by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) Houston District. Sutton, … Continued

Evaluation Report 15-10: Improvements Needed in SBA’s Management of the Women Owned Small Business Federal Contracting Program (WOSBP) OIG’s Evaluation Report 15-10, Improvements Needed in SBA’s Management of the Women Owned Small Business Federal Contracting Program (WOSBP), presents the results … Continued

Administration moves ahead with federal contractor labor law guidance The Obama administration proposed guidance that requires prospective contractors to disclose labor law violations from the past three years before they can get a contract. But a contractor advocacy group isn’t … Continued